<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 24-1. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
               
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               <span class="ital">County</span> means the County of Hyde, North Carolina, excepting only Ocracoke Township.
               
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               <span class="ital">County commissioners</span> means the Board of County Commissioners of Hyde County, North Carolina.
               
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               <span class="ital">Developer</span> means any person, firm, trust, partnership, association, or corporation engaged in
               development or proposed development of a mobile home or travel trailer park.
               
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               <span class="ital">Enforcement officer</span> means the director of planning for the county or his designated representative. The
               term "enforcement officer" also includes the director of health or his designated
               representative for the purpose of enforcing all public health provisions of this chapter
               and other applicable health codes adopted by the county board of health.
               
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               <span class="ital">Manufactured home. </span>
               
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                  (1)
                  
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                  The term "manufactured home" means a detached residential dwelling unit designed for
                  transportation, after fabrication on streets or highways, on its own wheels or on
                  flatbeds or other trailers, and arriving at the site where it is to be occupied as
                  a dwelling complete and ready for occupancy, except for minor and incidental unpacking
                  and assembly operations including, but is not limited to:
                  
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                  a.
                  
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                  Location on jacks or other temporary or permanent foundations; and
                  
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                  b.
                  
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                  Connections to utilities in accordance with local codes and ordinances.
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  The unit shall be registered or capable of being registered as a mobile home by the
                  state department of motor vehicles.
                  
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                  (3)
                  
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                  For the purpose of this chapter, a manufactured home and mobile home are one and the
                  same. Therefore, the terms "manufactured home" and "mobile home" may be used interchangeably.
                  
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                  (4)
                  
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                  The term "manufactured home" does not include:
                  
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                  a.
                  
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                  A modular homes which is not registered or capable of being registered by the state
                  department of motor vehicles and are considered the same as a site built home; or
                  
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                  b.
                  
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                  A travel trailer.
                  
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               <span class="ital">Manufactured/mobile home park</span> means any site or tract upon which two or more lots are developed for mobile homes
               to be located, rented or optioned for purchase and occupied for dwelling or sleeping
               purposes, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for the privilege of locating
               a mobile home upon the site or tract or for occupying any mobile home.
               
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               <span class="ital">Manufactured/mobile home park, major</span>, means any park not classified as a minor manufactured/mobile home park.
               
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               <span class="ital">Manufactured/mobile home park, minor,</span> means a manufactured/mobile home site that does not involve any of the following:
               
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                  (1)
                  
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                  The creation or more than the maximum number of lots; and
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  The usage of more than the maximum allowable acreage in site or tract size that is
                  specifically permitted by ordinance as a minor manufactured/mobile home park.
                  
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               <span class="ital">Mobile home or travel trailer park construction permit</span> means a permit issued by the enforcement officer to a developer for construction
               of a mobile home or travel trailer park.
               
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               <span class="ital">Mobile home space</span> means a plot of land within a mobile home park designed for the accommodation of
               one mobile home.
               
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               <span class="ital">Natural</span> or<span class="ital">artificial barrier</span> means any river, pond, canal, roadway, levee, embankment, fence, hedge, tree row
               or similar obstruction which limits access and visibility.
               
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               <span class="ital">Person</span> includes a firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, company, or corporation
               as well as an individual.
               
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               <span class="ital">Planning board</span> means the board of county commissioners acting as the planning board.
               
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               <span class="ital">Structural additions.</span>
               
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                  (1)
                  
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                  The term "structural additions" means any roofed, canopied, enclosed porch, room or
                  structure which is used in connection with a mobile home.
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  The term "structural additions" does not include a concrete slab with no roof.
                  
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               <span class="ital">Travel trailer:</span>
               
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                  (1)
                  
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                  The term "travel trailer" means a wheeled vehicular portable structure:
                  
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                  a.
                  
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                  Built on a chassis;
                  
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                  b.
                  
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                  Designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel and recreational purposes;
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                  c.
                  
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                  Having a body width not exceeding eight feet.
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  The term "travel trailer" also includes structures mounted on auto or truck bodies
                  that are referred to as campers.
                  
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               <span class="ital">Travel trailer park</span> means any site or tract of land upon which are located the minimum number of travel
               trailer spaces of land area required by this chapter, regardless of whether or not
               a charge is made for such service.
               
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               <span class="ital">Travel trailer space</span> means a plot of land within a travel trailer park designed for the accommodation
               of one travel trailer.
               
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               <span class="ital">Used or occupied</span> includes the terms intended, designed or arranged to be used or occupied.
               
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               (Ord. No. 86, art. II, Â§ 4, 3-6-2000)
               
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